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Neighbors for Wintersburg Wetlands Restoration
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The NWWR Vision
  • Acquisition and re-integration with the Greater Bolsa Chica ecosystem
  • Restoration of the wetlands, functioning as a natural treatment system
  • Filtration of urban runoff that would otherwise flow into Huntington Harbour
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The Shea Parkside Vision
  • Increased traffic problems
  • Increased water pollution
  • Increased flood threat


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Increased Traffic Congestion
  • Graham Street already congested at peak periods
  • Congestion will be worsened by:
    • Marine View gym (in progress)
    • Parkside (proposed)
    • Hearthside/Fieldstone (proposed)
  • Rare extreme congestion caused by problems on Pacific Coast Highway
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Graham & Glenstone Peak Traffic
Thursday, February 14, 2002, 7:35AM – click on picture to start clip
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Increased Water Pollution
  • Wintersburg Channel already carries nasty urban runoff into Huntington Harbour
  • Huntington Harbour currently suffers from areas of chronic high pollution and closures
  • Parkside will create additional unfiltered urban runoff in the Wintersburg Channel
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Water Pollutant TMDLs are Coming for Huntington Harbour
  • 303(d) pollutant limits will be established in the 2006-2010 timeframe, according to the Santa Ana RWQCB
  • Adding Parkside pollution today will make it harder and more expensive to meet these limits tomorrow
  • HB will be stuck paying the clean-up bill, not Shea!
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Increased Flood Threat
  • Parkside adds to runoff in Slater Channel, so the pump station will be expanded…
  • …but the County will impose throttle-back limits to protect the Wintersburg Channel from overflowing
  • Therefore if the Wintersburg is full, the new Slater pumps won’t operate, thus increasing the risk of a Slater Channel flood
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Shifting the Flood Risk
  • Parkside runoff north of the Wintersburg will be sent south to the Slater Channel
  • Existing Slater neighborhoods will be at risk during El Nino-class storms at Wintersburg high tide
  • Shifting the risk burden to other neighborhoods is bad public policy!


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It’s Simply a Bad Project!
  • Too many negative impacts on existing neighborhoods
  • Insufficient mitigations to address those impacts
  • A failure of vision not in keeping with the forward-looking city that Huntington Beach ought to be!